Velvet Crab, also known as the velvet swimming crab or devil crab, is a species of crab from the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Relationship to People Living or Extinct Scientific Name Connections
Child Taxon Of
Decapoda, Taxa Source GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Necora puber
In Biome
Source SeaLifeBase: Necora puber summary
In the Other Atlases
Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. SeaLifeBase: Necora puber summary
2. Velvet crab (Wikipedia)
Lead
Necora puber
system statement
The velvet crab (Necora puber), also known as the velvet swimming crab or devil crab, is a species of crab from the North-East Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
Human use: hunted-fished
but they are fished for in the Irish Sea.
View the Source3. Velvet crab (Necora puber) (Wikipedia)
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Necora puber
GBIF Backbone TaxonomyChild Taxon Of: Decapoda, Taxon recordQuote, Child Taxon Of: Decapoda, Taxon record
"order": "Decapoda"
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